Steven A Clark, Joseph P. Curran, Linda Rose, Gregory Siskind and Douglas
Weigle will be among the distinguished panelists for "Mid-Year Update In
Immigration Law Practice". Sherry L. Neal will lead the discussion (other
highly regarded speakers will be announced). The deadline to sign up is
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curriculum, and registration information, please see:
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We welcome readers to share their opinion and ideas with us by writing to editor@ilw.com.

The curriculum for ILW.COM's latest 3-part telephone seminar series is as follows:

FIRST Phone Session on May 25, 2006: Business Immigration Issues - Part 1

Bi-specialization: where to file new cases? Where to file
concurrent I-140/I-485 cases? What's the impact of bi-specialization?

Employment Verification and Enforcement: how to prepare clients
for an audit? How to advise clients on contractor issues? How to advise
employers on "no-match" letters from the social security administration?
What civil and criminal penalties are possible from an ICE investigation?

PERM and Backlog Update: What issues are leading to Notice of
Intent to Deny from the backlog centers? What are the common issues in
denial of PERM cases? How to reopen a case at the backlog center that has
been erroneously closed? What to do if a "45-day letter" has not been
received?

Anticipating the H-1b Cap: which employers are exempt from the
cap? Which foreign nationals are exempt from the cap? Can foreign students
remain in the U.S. while waiting for an October 1st H-1b? Can foreign
nationals "volunteer" while waiting for an H-1b? Must employers terminate
foreign student employees caught in the H-1b cap or is leave of absence
acceptable?

Legislative Update: what impact may legislation have on business
immigration?

SECOND Phone Session on June 8, 2006: Family Immigration And Removal Issues

Non-immigrant visa options for family members: what visa
options are available? What are the criteria?

Immigrant visas: What's the impact of overstay and/or
unauthorized employment? What criminal issues lead to denial? What waivers
are available? When is adjustment possible during a removal process?

Removal Issues: Is cancellation of removal a good solution?
What are the issues connected to Mandatory Detention? Is voluntary removal a
good solution?

Inadmissibility vs. Removability: What's the significance of
inadmissibility and removability? What are the remedies for inadmissibility
and removability?

Legislative Update: what impact may legislation have on family
immigration?

THIRD Phone Session on July 13, 2006: Business Immigration Issues - Part
2

Reports from some of the busiest Consulates in East Asia

Consular Processing: Inadmissibility- what are the grounds of
inadmissibility for non-immigrant visas? What are the grounds of
inadmissibility for immigrant visas?, Waivers- what are the criteria for
waivers of inadmissibility for non-immigrant visas and immigrant visas? How
to apply for a waiver of inadmissibility, Dealing with Delays- Is it
possible to expedite an appointment? Is it possible to speed up the
security clearance processing? How to handle age-out cases? What impact may
legislation have on business immigration?

Schedule A cases: Is it possible to expedite processing to avoid
retrogression? What if the healthcare worker doesn't have a healthcare
certificate at the time of the interview? What if the work location has
changed since the approval of the I-140 petition?

H-2B and Other Essential Workers: which occupations qualify? How to
prove "temporary" need? How to deal with the quota?

Late Breaking Hot Topics including H-1B Cap Update

Legislative Update: what impact may legislation have on
consular procedures and processing times and other business immigration
issues?

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Immigration Briefing - Washington, D.C.
What Makes An American? Historical Perspectives on Immigration. Monday, May 22, 2006. 8:30 to 10 a.m. Hudson-Pew Briefing Series on Preserving & Strengthening Democracy, Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center, Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor. The first in a series of Hudson-Pew briefings will discuss America's new immigrants, in light of the founding fathers' intent and in comparison to the last great wave of immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. To RSVP or to request information, contact Phil Ross at Hudson Institute 202.974.2400 or e-mail rsvp@hudson.org.

Readers are welcome to share their comments, email: editor@ilw.com (300-words or fewer preferred). Many letters to the Editor refer to past correspondence, available in our archives.

Dear Editor:
The use of the term Nazi to describe a differing viewpoint is both insensitive and ignorant (see 05/19/06 ID comment). The Nazis employed methods of torture and mass murder in addition to deportation. Those who were deported were fortunate.

David B. Gardner, Esq.
Los Angeles, CA

Dear Editor:
Dropping terms like "Nazi" and "Gestapo" into discussions about anti-immigration policy supporters is like throwing terms like "narco-terrorist" and "MS-13 gang recruits" at people who speak Spanish (see 05/19/06 ID comment). This is a bad idea for a number of obvious reasons. One reason that leaps to mind is that deporting people and murdering people through labor camps and systemized executions are two rather different things, last time I checked. I understand that you wish to provoke discussion, but running into the middle of a room and screaming "Nazi" is not the way to do it. Unless and until the anti-immigration platform includes a functional replica of Auschwitz in the Arizona desert, perhaps ID should keep the Third Reich references out of your missives.

Todd MacGregor, Esq.

Dear Editor:
While I vehemently disagree with the views and actions of the anti-immigration groups, I object to ID's use of the terms "Gestapo techniques" and "Nazi tactics." (see 05/19/06 ID comment). The proposals to date are not comparable to the horrors of the Holocaust. ID's cavalier use of these terms is disrespectful to the memory of those who perished at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators.

Leslie Dellon, Esq.

Dear Editor:
Seems like Immigration Daily is getting a little shrill in the "Comments" section; lot of talk about Nazis and Gestapo tactics (see 05/19/06 ID comment). The "Gestapo tactics" necessary to cause attrition would be enforcement of the employer sanctions laws; those already on the books would be fine; we don't really need new ones. The "Nazis" who would carry out these Gestapo tactics would be the ICE agents who are being paid by the American tax-payers to do that very thing. We already know "the word gets around" in the illegal alien community, as evidenced by the stampede for the border every time someone says amnesty. Once the word got around in the illegal alien community that it was becoming difficult to find illegal employment, attrition might be a very likely result. Illegal aliens could then devote that wonderful work ethic to improving their own countries. 'Course without them we'd have to take on the job of criticizing ourselves, since we wouldn't have the illegal aliens to do it for us. But that's a job that plenty of Americans are willing to do.

jhf
Baileyville, ME

Dear Editor:
Responding to the 05/19/06 ID comment, in no way would illegal alien enforcement involve "Nazi" tactics. Stop the hysteria. Systematic enforcement with a high publicity profile will start a south-bound human tsunami. What we will be left with will be a manageable number of deportations to round up. For ID's non-objectivity, let me suggest that "illegal" is not an honorable or positive term.

George Mason

Dear Editor:
The inflammatory use of such terms as "Gestapo techniques" and "Nazi
tactics" in Immigration Daily's (05/19/06) comment unfortunately places
ID in the same league as the letter of Jose Monge (05/12/06 ID), whose
feeble complaints of "racism and hate" were not persuasive. However, if
all of your conditional and extraneous terms are eliminated, you do have
the concept of Attrition partly correct, if not your conclusions. The
greater emphasis of this practical strategy is in removing the various
benefits now available to illegals along with serious enforcement which
need not involve any Nazis. After all, who would go to Disneyland, or
stay there, if the attractions were closed? Most Americans are against amnesty of any kind and for limited entry with no illegals in spite of your Rep. Tancredo analogy of "lipstick" on a pig which
he originally and correctly applied to a previous amnesty proposal. Those who criticize the concept of attrition seem motivated by a fear it would succeed if persistently tried. Pro-amnesty supporters are
irrationally considering a reward of "legalization" for those who have
been violating the law longer, a concept not used in any other area of
law. The staff of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has released the results
of an analysis that shows that if the Senate's immigration bill S.
2611 should become law, up to 217 million new legal immigrants will
be cleared to immigrate into the US over the next 20 years,
a number equal to 66% of the total current US population. Clearly, the rational solution is benefit attrition and humane
enforcement, not rewarding lawlessness and promoting demographic invasion. The A-word that should be given top consideration on all entry issues is that of Americans, not that of special interests or foreigners.

R. L. Ranger

Dear Editor:
Here you go with accusations of "Nazis" (see 05/19/06 ID comment). Attrition is hardly that. It involves putting pressure on employers to dry up jobs so that illegal aliens will self-deport. It is a perfectly reasonable, humane alternative to the expense and time involved in having the government do it. Furthermore, if government does not enforce the immigration laws on the books, which is really what "attrition" is about, well, it doesn't say much that you, as a group of lawyers, believes in snubbing one's nose at the law. Nor does it bode well for any limited amnesty or guest worker program, because these would require enforcement of the laws if they were to succeed.

Ali Alexander

Dear Editor:
How does Immigration Daily know what "most Americans want." (see 05/19/06 ID comment). The statements that are being made even by the President is that 85% of the illegal immigrants are "hard-working people who are looking to support their
families." Who can state that they know who the illegals are? There are quotes of 11 to 18 million
illegals? Who knows? Aren't there enough to pick crops at that level? The reason is that they are not picking crops to
support their families.

Nancy McCambly

Dear Editor:
I am having a difficult time understanding ID's position and goals regarding immigration (see 05/19/06 ID comment). First, do you believe a state has the right to control its immigration, or do you favor an open border? Second, do you believe that immigration laws are enforceable like any other law, or do they fall into some lesser category? ID appears to lump together those people who are anti-immigration (which would be people who seek to eliminate legal as well as illegal immigration) with those who believe in controlled immigration. I think such a lumping is unfair and inaccurate. The correct term to refer to the latter would be anti-illegal immigration groups, not anti-immigration groups. It's inflamatory and harmful to the debate to compare the efforts to control immigration (by only allowing legal entries and enforcing employment laws) to Nazi tactics. It's simply absurd to compare people deciding to return to their home country to Nazi victims. The Nazi tactics were death, torture and terror. Enforcement of employment laws and patroling the border do not involve such tactics, and by implying so you remove your argument outside the realm of reasonable, logical analysis into a realm of absurdity. I would hope that the discussion on immigration issues, particularly in a legal forum, could be based upon reason and logic rather than on name-calling and hyperbole.

Charles W. Bennion

Dear Editor:
Life as you know (or knew it) in America is gone (05/18/06 ID comment). You are dying a slow death. The slower the process, the less noticeable, until you start feeling the pain. And as "ilness" progresses the pain gets worse. Of course, by the time you realise this is happening, nothing can be done for you anymore. I am a legal immigrant, and I firmly believe that this country needs to start paying a lot more attention to closing borders. And I mean being more selective in general, not only to the Mexican side. If you don't start doing something now, we might all end up being forced to immigrate elsewhere someday when all the life has been sucked out of the USA. Humanitarian actions always seem very noble, but is very stupid when it is at your own cost.

L. Cogill

Dear Editor:
Responding to KO's letter (05/17/06 ID) which suggested using violence against immigrants on the border. I would suggest his finding enough courage to sign his name and town.

Dave Anderson
Gainesville, GA

Dear Editor:
My husband is a really good man, he has never been in any trouble. I just think people are to judgementle of somthing they really don't understand.If they just gave the good hispanics a try they would relize that they are good hard workers,like my husband.He has been here for 10 years, and all we want is a normal life together.

Name Withheld

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